Lalitpur District issues citizenship to transgender under “O” category

July 2, 2015 /
Pahichan Reporter

Lalitpur (Pahichan) July 2- District Administration Office Lalitpur has issued citizenship to three transgender mentioning “O” (others) in gender category. Rukshana Kapali, 16, who lives in Patan, Karuna Bista, a resident from Imadol and Kusum Shrestha received citizenship under O category.

After Supreme Court order which was followed by Ministry Directives, District Administration Offices are issuing citizenship to homosexual and transgender. Ruxam has expressed happiness for receiving citizenship. “We are advocating mentioning O category in the educational certificates as well,” said Ruxam.

Rukshana Kapali passed SLC exam this year. “We failed to receive SCL certificate mentioning O category,” Rukshana added. He was of the view that people who received citizenship under wrong category should be again distributed with correct gender category. Blue Diamond Society has filed a case at court demanding to redistribute citizenship who already received under wrong category. Anika Rana has filed the case at Supreme Court; however, there has not been any discussion on it. Advocate Sujan Pant said the writ has not received priority yet.

There is not a uniform understanding among ordinary people about homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. Even the people who know about variance in this community address saying female, male and transgender. They, however, do not have proper knowledge that transgender have two categories: transgender woman and transgender man.
In this situation, it is not an easy task to inform society about their rights. Even the media and society did not have a positive attitude towards sexual and gender minority such as homosexual, transgender, inter-sex and bi-sexual people. National media had... Read more